patients like josefina schultz who's 10 years old today she was born with a swellings and a heart defect. her parents went from doctor to doctor but no one to give them an answer it took 18 months to get a diagnosis josefina has a rare genetic disorder williams syndrome but she still has a normal life expectancy for not is it if you're affected by red izzy's it means 1st and foremost that you have to search parents tell us what an enormous burden it is for them to know that something is wrong with their child and not get an answer as to what it means and where it leads the way with words when. the pharmaceutical industry focuses on the development of therapies for common diseases secrets from the association of research based pharmaceutical companies says this is the right approach. for now nobody is responsible for basic research we have a total of $30000.00 diseases 628000 of them are rare in view of that i think it's obvious that the pharmaceutical industry cannot tackle all diseases at the same time. con research spending by governments in the pharmaceutical sector has been rising fo